Re: su and X question

["Zen Garden" <scoobygalletas@gmail.com>]

I used to have te same problem. It is because root cannot access to the X server.
Here the sollution:

user$ xhost + (press enter)

And then:

user$ su (without the "-") (press enter)
password: (type your root password)

root#

Now you can launch windows from shell as root.

Ciao!


Matías.-

On 4/12/06, Chris < list.hurschler@gmx.de> wrote:

Hello,

Hi I'd like to open X-applications like the in the example below from an su
Terminal, but get an Xlib connection error.  I have set up sudo so that: sudo
kwrite /etc/fstab works, but how come it doesn't in a normal su Terminal?

Thanks,

Chris

athlon:/home/stoffel# kwrite /etc/fstab
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

kwrite: cannot connect to X server :0.0
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C. Hurschler


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